Diana Hu
Group Partner at Y Combinator
Diana Hu
Group Partner at Y Combinator
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Group Partner
2022 - Current
Visiting Partner
2021 - 2022
Director of Engineering, Head of AR Platform
2018 - 2020
Led Niantic's AR platform
Niantic develops reality platforms that focus on mapping and security for current and future AR hardware generations.
Raised $770,000,000.00 from ID8 Investments, Pure Imagination Brands and Coatue.
Co-founder & CTO (acquired by Niantic)
2016 - 2018
Built the most advanced Augmented Reality API A Y Combinator S17 company
Data Science Lead (OnCue TV acquired by Verizon Labs)
2014 - 2016
Led ML and CV group for recommender systems and automatic TV ad detection
Data Science Tech Lead
2013 - 2014
Led data science for Intel's spin-off for OnCue TV
Research Analyst for the Chief of Product
2012 - 2013
3rd engineering leadership rotation – executive briefings, white papers, keynotes
Research Engineer at Intel Labs
2012 - 2012
2nd engineering leadership rotation – large scale ML distributed systems and HPC
Software Engineer
2011 - 2012
1st engineering leadership rotation – computer vision applications for factory automation
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Researcher
2010 - 2011
Computer vision research on biometrics